Now Upload Photos To Orkut From Picasa – A Move Towards Killing Orkut?

by | posted: March 4, 2010
Google has launched a new feature (which is not a copy of it’s competitor) on their social networking website Orkut by which you can directly upload photos to your Orkut profile and albums right...
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Facebook Really Cares For You: Plans To Provide McAfee Protection From Viruses!

by | posted: January 19, 2010
Facebook loves your online social face, they help you make more friends, walk you through effective video promotion for your brand and now they want to help you secure your computer against online (internet)...
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Social Networking Craze Affects Productivity @ India Inc

by | posted: December 23, 2009
Social networks are turning into time wasters for Indian employees as revealed by a latest survey from Assocham (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry). The report points out how the social media...
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Facebook Outshines Orkut In October – Traffic Up by 19%: Vizisense

by | posted: November 27, 2009
ViziSense, an online traffic measurement service for Indian markets has released Traffic stats for October. The Data top-lines the growth registered by portals mostly frequented by Indian netizens. All...
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Netizen Toddlers – How Does That Sound?

by | posted: November 6, 2009
Two years back when I saw my 9 years old neighbor chatting away on MSN, I was shocked. She also had a profile on Orkut! I didn’t know whether to complaint to her mother or just sigh and think that technology...
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New Orkut Launched With Many Facebook-Twitter Like Features – We Review Whats New?

by | posted: October 30, 2009
We had reported that Orkut was to ape twitter’s status updates feature and so it has with the launch of the new orkut. Orkut sent me a mailer with an invite to check out the new orkut. They have...
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Content Sharing Deal Between Facebook And MySpace – Can They Make It Work?

by | posted: October 27, 2009
Just in the morning, we covered as to how Google stopped the migration of email-id’s from Orkut to Facebook by excluding the email-id’s from the CSV file, in order to preserve the privacy of...
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Orkut Stops Migration To Facebook – Contradicts Google’s Policies

by | posted: October 27, 2009
The mission statement of the Google data liberation front reads as follows: “Users should be able to control the data they store in any of Google’s products. Our team’s goal is to make...
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Facebook Overtakes Orkut in India!

by | posted: October 20, 2009
Orkut and Facebook  has been a favourite topic for most of us here. Who’s winning? Who WILL win? What’s the future of social networking in India? Recently, there was a huge furore over Facebook...
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Updated: After Facebook Is Orkut Trying To Ape Twitter Too?

by | posted: October 14, 2009
Update: On contacting google we got the following reply - “Our constant endeavor is to provide an enhanced online experience for Orkut users and we will continue to work towards it. However, we have...
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Google Experiments With Social Search – Adds Facebook, LinkedIn Info In Search Results

by | posted: October 8, 2009
Google seems to be on a rollout as it has been been launching steady updates to its search engine. It has been trying to make search results more user friendly at the same time giving more filtering...
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Orkut Launches Video Chat Feature – Will This Counter The Facebook Threat?

by | posted: September 16, 2009
Now that we have had so many social networks jostling for market shares, it is time to stop and wonder how many of these social networks have introduced features that have actually helped in the core concept...
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Should Social Media Charge For Content?

by | posted: September 8, 2009
Social media monetization is a debate that has now existed forever. With increasing number of people getting on the social networking bandwagon, it becomes extremely important for the companies in social...
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Yahoo Closes Down SpotM – What Will Yahoo Close Next?

by | posted: September 1, 2009
Yet another day and Yahoo decides to close down yet another of its properties. After Yahoo 360, another social network, SpotM –  the India specific website that was never out of private beta has...
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Social Networking – In The ‘Line of Fire’ Again

by | posted: August 25, 2009
Let me admit honestly, I worship Social Networking; and it has changed my life for good. But, it does become frustrating when day in and day out on a million sites we read that the social media is harmful...
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Orkut Asks Users to Stop Using IE 6: A Very Good Idea

by | posted: August 11, 2009
I don’t have IE 6 on my system so couldn’t really check on this bit, but there’s no reason to doubt Mashable anyway. So in an interesting move, Orkut greeted its visitors suggesting them...
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